============================================================================== ISOC Document Title: Minutes of 16 Feb 1995 ISOC Board of Trustees Executive Committee Meeting Author: G. Huston Date: 17 Feb 1995 Body: Board of Trustees Document: 95-002 Revision: - Supersedes: - Status: Maintainer: G Huston Access: unrestricted ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISOC Executive Meeting Held via teleconference, Thursday 16th February 1995 1700 - 1830 (Washington DC) Present: Vint Cerf, Frode Greisen, Geoff Huston, Larry Landweber, Dan Lynch, Tony Rutkowski 1. Facilities The new office space would be available for use in early May 1995. The space will be furnished using stamdard office furniture, within an indicative $500 per office for furnishings. The Executive Director is discussing sub-leasing part of the the existing space to Open Source Solutions, and using part for the Global Networking Institute and the equipment room. 2. Staff There have been 14 responses to date from the advertisement for a Systems Administrator. Action: Tony to post a pointer to the position on a number of relevant Internet mailers It was noted that ISOC could incur some expense on sponsoring a US work visa, and possibly relocation expenses, together with delays in hiring if a candidate was selected who was not already eligible for employment in the United States and located in the United States, and that this should be noted when preparing a short list of candidates for interview. Tony Rutkowski and Marty Schulman will conduct interviews of short listed applicants. The draft advertisement for the Conference/PR/Membership Services position has been circulated. The consensus was recorded to reword the advertisement as a conference and seminar manager, with direct organisational responsibilities for ISOC conferences. It was noted that the workshop represented an additional workload to the INET conference and that external services may continue to be the most effective management option for the workshop. With these alterations in the advertisement the Executive endorsed the hiring of this staff member. Action: Advertise the Conference Management position The Development Manager position requires the preparation of a job description and advertisement. Action: Tony to prepare and circulate the job description and advertisement for this position. The executive noted the use of a short term legal intern to assist in the work associated with the settng up of the Global Networking Institute. 3. Projects and Initiatives The progress of the ISOC African Networking proposal was reviewed, noting that further interations of the proposal would occur within the process of consultation with the major potential funding agencies. Action: Larry to circulate the proposal to the Executive Committee The Global Networking Institute is now being reworked as an implementation plan. The Institute willhave a staffing complement of two positions, and will be examining the legal and regulatory issues which facilitate or restrict the diffusion of the Internet within national environments. The APNIC account has been set up. The Executive Committee discussed the various options relating to the organisational structure of APNIC, and undertook to reconsider this matter at the next teleconference, following consideration of the APNIC consultant's report. The Iorganisations for the 1995 SOC Workshops are now underway. The executive Executive endorsed the offer from Wendy White to represent ISOC at the Addis conference. The Middle East workshop was also considered, but further activity from ISOC would await the outcomes from the May Terena workshop. The Executive considered a proposal for Internet tutorials in conjunction with Bunyip, It was considered that this would be most productive in the context of ISOC chapter activity, and the proposal whereby all revenue was shared equally between ISOC and Bunyip was endorsed in principle. The Executive noted the outstanding action to prepare a strong positive story relating ISOC's role in defense of the use of the word "Internet" in the United States, and undertook to review a draft prepared by Jon Postel for proposed widespread circulation. 4. Bodies The status of the 1995 Trustee elections was reviewed. It was proposed that paper ballots be posted to all members, using an inner and outer envelope return system (the returned outer envelope would contain the member's details of name and membership number, and the plain inner envelope would contain the completed ballot paper.) It is proposed to accept faxed, emailed or Web-form ballot returns, adopting the principle that such returns would need to include the member's ISOC membership number, and Name as recorded on the membership database, as an alternative to a returned postal ballot. (Although it was not noted in the Committee meeting it would be prudent to also note in the procedures that returned postal ballots would take preference over signed fax returned ballots, which in turn would take preference over email which take preference over a WEB form. - gh) It was noted that ballots are to be posted on the 1st March 1995. The IANA Charter draft is to be reviewed by the Trustees. It was also proposed to place more information regarding the role and actions of the IAB online, as well as reviewing the charter of IANA. It was noted that ISOC Council, Andy Ireland, was investigating insurance details, and was investigating whether IANA and NIC activities could be insured against liabilities in any way. Action: Tony to review with Andy Ireland the extent of the insurance coverage. 5. Chapters The Israel Chapter is awaiting final signoff, after being announced at the recent Israel networking conference. The Geneva and Norway chapters were also noted to be close to final incorporation. 6. Events An enhanced ISOC presence at IETF meetings was endorsed. The NDSS conference was noted to be fully bbooked, and strong interest was being recieved about the IC-ISP conference. INET'95 is now well on track, and all preparatory activies are now considered to be running on schedule. INET'96 has been announced in Canada, with very high levels of interest noted. Fund raising activities have already commenced for this function. 7. Liaison - IEEE - noted as ongoing activity - ISO - noted as ongoing activity - ITU - the ISOC request for a waiver of fees is being considered by the ITU council again. - UNESCO - this is not noted to be an active area at present. 8. Publications The first issue of "On the Internet" will be published in 3 weeks. The final issue of ISOC news will be formatted along the lines of an annual report to members, highlighting ISOC's activities over 1994 on the Internet, and indicating how ISOC funds are spent in terms of activities and programs. 9. Legal and Regulatory Copyright of Schulman-ISOC server - this WEB server is to be submitted for copyright with ISOC. It was noted that ISOC is hosting a net-law mailer, which is concerned with legal and regulatory issues on the Internet US FTC developments were noted by the Committee, with no response proposed at present.